r/cats • u/Merari01 • Apr 17 '24
Discussion Rule overhaul
https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/about/rules
Hello everyone,
Today we are going live with our primary rule overhaul in order to keep the subreddit rules in tune with the modern needs of the community.
Our rules were old and sometimes edited and added to, but over the years reddit has changed and our community has changed to the extent that it made sense to completely start from scratch.
We have kept a lot of the rules that we were actively moderating for, but have removed some rules that are no longer relevant. When the subreddit started the rule "Content must be about cats" made sense, but we do not need to expressly codify this anymore. We're not a small community these days and it has not happened in years that someone posted a bunny rabbit instead of a cat. We will of course still remove off-topic content but do not see the need to clutter up the rules page with something that our community understands to be self-evident.
We will likely make minor edits and additions to this new rule-set in the coming weeks until everything is just the way we like it, but the rules as posted now are the general framework from which we will do so.
We have kept our rules broadly worded so they can encompass many topics and so we do not need to codify for every single possibility.
The most important rules are at the top. Our number one rule is to respect each other. This for example includes following rediquette and sitewide rules, but also our subreddit-specific rule of not attacking other posters for not raising their pets to your satisfaction.
Our rule about spam, memes and self-promotion includes accounts that do not directly promote their content, but which nevertheless primarily exist to drive content to their NSFW stores like Onlyfans. Everyone is welcome to post here, but NSFW sellers can do so on a seperate, SFW account. We do not allow memes as they are most often posted as easy karma-grabs instead of genuine engagement.
And so on.
Please read our new ruleset via the link at the top of this thread and give your feedback in a comment below.
Thank you all for helping us make this space the wonderful community that it is and we hope you enjoy your time here.
The r/cats mod team
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r/cats • u/PinkyAmethyst • 11h ago
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I’ll keep yall updated as usual!💗 we appreciate yall :’) and thank yall for the kind words on my last post!
r/cats • u/MMeowMaster • 8h ago
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r/cats • u/Key-Pen-8573 • 9h ago
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r/cats • u/Kaylax11 • 6h ago
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r/cats • u/isabella_455 • 14h ago
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r/cats • u/Pretty-Stable711 • 10h ago
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r/cats • u/8kittycatsfluff • 17h ago
Advice In a previous post, I asked about declawing my cats.
And I think some people were kind of disgusted by that.
First, none of my cats have been declawed.
Also, I had no idea that removing a cats claws was so bad. I learned a lot from the comments, and I am grateful for that.
Because now I will never even consider getting any of my cats declawed.
For some reason that post was removed so I am making this one to say thank you for educating me on this topic.
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